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Sneed Plan Backers Won’t Make Another Try
By Jim Young
Supporters of the Sneed
Plan for court reorganiza-
tion Wednesday said they
have no plans for making
another try to pass their
judicial system which was
defeated in Tuesday's elec-
tlo.
Karl Sneed, father of the
court plan, said the plan is
dead for the time being.
He said there are no plans
to try again "in the near
future."
Mrs. Clarke Thomas,
state president of the
league of Women Voters,
said her group will discuss
the developments and will
watch how the legislative
plan works.
"As far as an Initiative
Tabulation of Votes
By Counties, Page 29.
petition, I don't ihlnk we
will," she said of any at-
tempts to bring about
more court reform. "The
people have spoken on
that."
"There will be no Imme-
diate push,” she said.
Mrs. Thomas said the
league will be watching to
see how the legislative
non-partisan selection of
trial judges works. If this
is unsuccessful, then the
league may push for
changes here through the
legislature.
Gov. Bartlett Wednesday
credited efforts of the
Sneed group for court re-
form with pushing the leg-
islative effot is.
"The successful circula-
tion of the Sneed plan peti-
tion had the effect of sup-
porting the legislative plan
adopted by the people last
year," the governor said
Wednesday.
Bartlett said Oklahoma
Charles R. Nesbitt, runoff winner of the Demo-
cratic nomination for corporation commissioner faces
rough general election fight from I. K. Chenoweth,
Republican victor. Page 17. Vote table Is on Page 29.
Tulsan John B. Jarboe win* Democratic nomina-
tion for First District congressional seat. Page 15.
Sheriff, commissioner races hot across state.
Page 16.
Legislative races shape up, Page 33.
has a good court law now,
but hp added that the
Snppd plan was a "good
law," too.
The court proposal —
Slatp Question 441 — was
defeated by 55,891 votes
with only three counties
(Oklahoma. Cleveland and
Payne) voting in favor of
it.
Five other questions on
the ballot Tuesday were
adopted
The Sneed plan drew its
biggest support in Oklaho-
ma County where it re-
ceived 28,214 "yes" votes
to 12,969 for the opposition.
Mpanwhile, Tulsa County
rejected the plan by 1,394
votes.
Sneed, former Universi-
ty of Oklahoma law dean,
expressed disappointment
at the outcome. But he
said thp three year fight
for judicial changes was
not in vain.
"We have accomplished
much of our purpose since
the legislative plan is
much superior to what we
had in 1966," Sneed said.
He blamed the injection
of the United States Su-
preme Court system Into
the campaign as the most
damaging factor. Also
harmful were campaign
charges that county court
clerks would be placed on
an appointive basis.
"There was no founda-
tion of fact for it,” he said
of contentions that clerks
(See COURTS—Page 2)
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Britain Reports Reds
Shoot Rocket to Moon
.JODRELL BANK. Eng-
land (AP) — British spacp
observers at .lodrell Bank
reported Wednesday that a
Soviet Union moon probe
has passed the moon with-
in about 1,000 miles and is
believed on its way back to
earth.
The probe, if retrieved,
will score another space
first for the Russians and
will he an important step
forward in the effort ro
land a man on the moon,
said Sir Bernard Lovell,
Jodrell Bank director.
A Soviet government
spokesman denied the
British report.
The spokesman said the
report from I„ovell was "a
canard — the entire report
does not correspond to
reality."
The spokesman said hp
had no information on the
flight of the Zond 5 un-
Bond Tangle Untied
% •
* Court’s Plea
3B Brings Action
The state supreme court
persuaded parties to the
battle against Oklahoma
City's $111.4-million bond
issue Thursday to speed up
procedure so it can decide
COLORFUL FAIR 1b on tap this year, when the State Fair of Oklahoma, open-
ing Saturday, goes truly international. Maura Lucas, 3, poses with some of the
flags from many lands that will be displayed. Large exhibits from Japan, Swe-
den, Canada and Mexico and commercial displays from four other countries
will be shown. Besides that, softball teams from 11 nations will play the world
tournament, and representatives from about 25 other countries will be on hand
for that event. (Times Staff Photo by Jim Argo.) ___
1.500 Cheer Activist at Langston
Gregory Rips All 3 Nominees
By Robert B. Allen
Staff Writer
LANGSTON — Former
comedian Dick Gregory
told cheering Langston
University students
Wednesday the cry for law
and order by American
leaders is limited to a
"new way of saying nig-
ger.'
In charging that moral
pollution is the nation's
No. 1 problem, Gregory
told an estimated 1,500 stu-
dents who jammed the
Langston auditorium that
today’s presidential candi-
dates are making political
compromises, fake prem-
ises and distorting their
actions.
He referred to both
Democratic nominee Hu-
bert Humphrey and Re-
publican nominee Richard
Star of Stage, Fit ms Was 61
Franchot Tone Dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Franchot
Tone, the veteran star of Broadway and
the films, died at his Manhattan East
Side apartment Wednesday. He was 61.
Tone made his debut on the Broadway
stage in 1928 and three years later moved
on to Hollywood, mixing a career between
thp two coasts for the rest of his acting
life.
Suave, polished, with a fine social back-
ground, Tone met actress Joan Crawford
on his first venture in Hollywood. They
were secretly married in 1935 but three
years later, their divergent careers broke
up the marriage.
He then went on to marry actresses
Jean Wallace, Barbara Payton and, in
1956, 23-year-old Dolores Dorn-Heft. All
ended in divorce.
Bench Benched
Bus
Muss
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between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday
and ask for "Action Line."
There Is an old bus beach at NW 92 aad Western that
Is a hasard to traffic because it blocks your view. The
beoch should- be moved because the bus uo longer slops
at this comer. Mrs. A. J. C.
We reported this to Bernard Robb, executive of the
Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authori-
ty, and this bench has now been removed.
•
There Is a dog at NW 27 aad ladiaaa that barks at
everyone who pusses. 1 have to walk three blocks out of
my wuy because of it. Can you do oinelhiag? Mrs. V. H.
Poundmaster Royal Burris went out to investigate
^ this for you and concludes that the little dog is just being
friendly. He says the dog is properly tagged, on a leash
(flee ACTION LINE—Page 2)
UR Finds Borne
A ‘Solid’
Foundation
The Oklahoma City Ur-
ban Renewal Authority
Wednesday found a new-
home — the Colcord Build-
ing.
The agency, which has
shifted residential and bus-
iness interests to and fro
the past two years, is itself
a victim of urban renewal.
It must move from 22
Park Avenue to make
room for a 35-story office
building that fits into URA
development plans.
The Colcord Building. 15
N Robinson, a landmark,
solid structure, actually
lies outside the URA’
downtown 1-A project.
It is not likely to be
moved or torn down and
URA frankly admits it
(Sje NEW—Pug* »
Nixon as "scum candi-
dates.”
The onetime TV funny-
man. who gave up his ca-
reer to become a civil
rights activist, said the
Negro race must demand
that political parties bring
up newer men or tell the
country they are going to
stay home from the voting
polls.
Gregory also lashed out
bitterly at third party can-
didate George Wallace,
but said Wallace had
helped to arouse the Negro
into action.
He said Negroes today-
are making the white man
"uncomfortable." The
crowd cheered when he
said, "We hear a lot about
white folks being against
their children dating Ne-
groes.
"Well, a lot of us Ne-
groes don't want our chil-
dren dating whites," he
added.
Gregory said in this
country a white man
shouldn't be made to live
next door to a Negro. He
then added. "The white
man has a right to move
out."
The controversial Negro
civil rights leader laced
his hour-long address with
numerous humorous quips.
(See GREGORY—Page 2)
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Local: Fair through
Thursday. Not so cool
Wednesday night and
warmer Thursday. Over-
night low near 53. High
Thursday mid HO*. (De-
tail* on Page 14.)
HOURLY TIMESSATUSS
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the case before an October
28 deadline on sale of the
bonds.
By agreement w-ith S.
Dale Rorem and William
T. Porter — who have filed
contesting actions — the
court will have all briefs
and facts in the case be-
fore it by October 5.
The agreement let the
court breathe a legal sigh
of relief. It found itself in
a ticklish position because
the case had become so
complicated before it ever
found out what it was all
about.
Porter had asked the
court to issue an injunction
to keep ihe city from issu-
ing the bonds on grounds
of election irregularities.
However. Rorem. who
lost a similar action in dis-
trict court August 23. had
a right to appeal from that
ruling to the supreme
court.
Aware that if Rorem ex-
ercises his statutory time
for appeal the case would
drag out for months, mem
bers of the court suggested
that Rorem speed the ap-
peal so it could be consoli-
dated with Porter's law-
suit.
Various members of the
court said they were loath
to let someone use its pow
er to hear Porter’s lawsuit
to cut off Rorem's right to
appeal his district court
ca se.
"The reason I am reluc-
tant to move ahead is that
1 simply don't want to ap-
pear to be pushing you
around." Chief Justice
Floyd Jackson told Gary
Shores. Rorem's attorney
Shores was assured by
several justices that he
could present anything he
wanted to in the way of is-
sues if he would move
along with the appeal
With that assurance, he
agreed to file the appeal
and supporting brief with-
in nine days.
Oklahoma City, defend-
ing the bond issue, will
have five days to answer
Shores' brief, as well as
that filed by James Work.
Porter's attorney.
Shores and Work then
will have three days in
which to reply to the city's
answer.
Roy Semtner. r.vxt
counselor, said if the bonds
are not delivered by October
28. Oklahoma City residents ||
stand a chance of having to
pay a higher interest rate at
a later bond sale. I
Vester Kelly aw aits news of operation.
Sow It's Surgery
Help? She
Won’t Ask
By Pete Feldman
Vesior Kelly is a dim- Since April thp fami-
inutive widow, neatly
dressed and 34 years
old. trying to keep her
family of six girls and a
boy intact on $217 a
month.
Wednesday, daughter
Shirlev. 17. was in Chil-
dren's Memorial Hospi-
tal where she under-
went open heart sur-
gery.
The five-hour opera-
tion appears to have
been a success.
J*.
! 'a
Shirley Pebworth
ly, formerly of Atoka,
has been living at 1408
NW 2 in a rented house
that eosts $60 a month
plus bills, or almost $100
a month. That's nearly
half the family income.
It's not a wpll-to-do
neighborhood. The
home needs a paint job
badly. The while picket
fence around its front is
derelict, and in bad need
of repair and white-
wash.
The three bare con-
crete steps leading to
the front porch are well
worn.
But inside the home
there is love. And more
important, hope.
The children range in
agp from 8 to 17, but
none lacks the basic es-
sentials — food, shelter
and clothing. Mrs. Kelly
brought the family to
Oklahoma City because
Shirley, her daughter by
a previous marriage,
needed ihe care and op-
eration that only the
hospital could g'v
She has what doctors
call an atrial septal de-
fect — an opening in the
wall of the heart that
(Me* HELP?—Page 2)
manned spacecraft, which
a Soviet announcement
Sunday said had been
launched into spare after
being in a parking orbit
around the earth.
The spacecraft's mission
was not specified then, and
thpre has been no further
Soviet announcement
about it.
‘We are not backing
down on anything," said a
spokesman at Jodrell
Bank. "We only said we
believed the probe had
passed near the moon and
was now headed back.
From tne signals so
far, we are certain that it
did approach the moon
soon after 5 this morning
and was affected by the
moon s gravitational field.
"Now it is leaving the
moon's vicinity and is not
in orbit around it. But at
the moment it is impossi-
ble to tell for sure which
direction it is headed away
from the moon.
"We should know better
after we have interpreted
further data received dur-
ing the afternoon."
Lovell, one of Britain's
leading space scientists,
said earlier Jodrell Bank’s
big radio telescope picked
up signals from Zond 5 in
40-minute bursts through-
out the night and the rock-
et passed within about
1.000 miles of the moon at
5:55 a.m.. or 11:55 p.m.
Tuesday (Oklahoma time).
Lovell said the space-
craft did not go around the
moon, but passed on one
side of it. and then the sig-
nal strength increased
many times as it turned
toward earth.
He predicted the Rus-
sians would try to recover
it on Friday.
"Once they have
achieved ihis," said the
Briton, "we can anticipate
that they will put a man in
one, send it near the moon,
then bring it back without
landing on the moon."
This may be tried within
months, Lovell said, al-
though the Russians may
want to try more exercises
on the critical maneuver
of hitting just ihe right an-
gle needed for re-entry of
a moon craft.
Lovell said he believed
Zond 5 was itself large
enough to carry a man to
the moon and back.
The first Zond space-
craft took pictures of the
hack side of the moon
Three years ago. and other
Zond craft since have
failed in attempts to reach
Venus and Mar s.
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